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OURNEYS 
THROUGH 
SPACE 



EXPERIENCES OF 

EFFA E. DANELSON 

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1904 NORTH CLARK STREET 
CHICAGO :: :: ILLINOIS 






Copyright, 1922 
By Effa E. Danelson 



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PREFACE 



THE contents of this book are 
the experiences of the 
author. The simple lan- 

guage in which it is written needs 
no interpreter; a careful reading 
with an open mind will bring the 
revelation of the truth of the 
Living Life made manifest in 
every life. 

READ, REASON, REFLECT. 



Cjreetings 



In love we seek to serve ; in love we give 
and take ; 

In love our hearts beat ever true, in one 
great cause we work. 

'Tis not to fight and labor to gain a mas- 
tery ; 

We only fight and labor life's victory to 
win ; 

Unfolding life's sweet blossoms, to fuller 
joy each day, 

By reaching ever higher and scattering as 
we mount, 

The petals of life's flower to others reach- 
ing out ; 

To fill a cup of sorrow, with love's sweet 
nectar too, 

And await with joy the morrow, if today 
we have been true. 



Journeys Through 
Space 



PART ONE 



Journeys Through 
Space 



January 26, 1920 

In our journey we found cities and towns ; 
colonies, they might he called ; people gathered 
together in a common cause ; men, women and 
children, tiny babe, maiden and the youth. We 
studied the different groups and found that 
it was the result of the natural law of attrac- 
tion and not in any way governed by what the 
person had done or left undone, the race, rela- 
tion, politics, nation, religion or cult, rich or 
poor. 

We found these groups associated in perfect 
harmony and love because their central sun 
attracted them. Sometimes it was music, some- 
times flowers, others books, but all groups have 
a central sun from which knowledge radiates. 
Those who were unable to draw for themselves 
were placed in relation to those who were 
masters in their art ; everyone gave freely be- 
cause all supply was free and the law was 
progression ; the result, the more you draw 
from the central sun, the more you possess. 

The help you are able to give to those less 
advanced determines your status. In some of 
these groups we found they still had the idea 



8 JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 

that the central sun was Jesus but the major- 
ity had come to realize that the wonderful 
form which appeared was the emanation from 
themselves as a result of their great earnest- 
ness in seeking knowledge. 

All strangers are welcome, there is no fear, 
for you can only take that which you can as- 
similate. You can pass through the group 
and they will not see you unless you are one 
of them. If you are one of them you do not 
have to be introduced or identified ; your place 
seems to create its own supply ; you can leave 
at any time and return, you do not have to 
have a guide although many do, just as there 
are many people in the flesh world who are 
masters, but keep themselves weak, mainly be- 
cause they have not awakened to their pos- 
sessions. 

Man has been retarded in his progress, be- 
cause of the false religious teachings which set 
up a dynasty in the form of an avenging god, 
causing such a fear in the hearts of man that 
their power to reason has been stultified. 

We found that crime was a disease caused 
from the lack of mental nourishment ; this in 
turn was the result of improper physical nour- 
ishment causing stagnation which produced 
dwarfed or crippled emenations ; these in turn 
falling like a fog envelopes the generator and 
impedes progress ; the result is disaster and is 
called crime. 



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If your furnace smokes, you investigate the 
flue but if your "child goes wrong you torture 
the body by blows. Life in the flesh world is 
no different than life in the spirit world. The 
condition of the individual in either, depends 
wholly on the advancement of the individual, 
how receptive he is to the influences round 
about him. Look over the flesh world ; are you 
not assembled in groups? Study life in the 
earth phase, it is the first step to be taken, 
then comparisons may be made and understand- 
ings be had in regards to the relation of the 
one half to the other, for it is all one world 
cut in half by an imaginary veil which pro- 
perly should be called a veil of ignorance or 
lack of study of the laws of life. 

Again we refer you to the false teachings. 



January 27. 1920 

This morning we were attracted by a group 
of people and upon investigation found they 
were inventors. The leaders were holding 
classes, where instructions were being given, 
explaining the different laws governing the air 
channels. We found what is called an under- 
ground channel out of which people of all 
classes were coming. As they came under the 
influence of the teachers voice, the grime and 
dirt (ignorance) dropped away. It acted like 
the soap and water the mechanic uses to 
cleanse his face and hands, after a hard day's 
work. We found there is just such a channel 
leading to every group. Each life is a chamber. 

Life is like a revolver, we, as individuals, 
are the cartridges so to speak, held in the 
magazine, but when forced by death into ac- 
tion, all pass through the one bore. Some 
reach the mark, some go wild but all find a 
bed. 

The stronger ones are able to adjust them- 
selves, the weaker ones who do not resist are 
carried along by stronger influences. It is not 
our desire at this time to discuss but rather to 
record and let the reader reason. 

We found also upon investigation that death 
does not carry life but deposits it. The flesh 



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decomposes ; the voice never dies, memory con- 
tinues, and arising from the mortal body, life 
lifts itself, perfect and wonderful, even though 
in earth life the body was hopelessly crippled. 
The temple of flesh may be deformed causing 
life to remain a prisoner, so to speak, held 
from the association of those who care for the 
helpless body but there is an exit unknown to 
mortal mind, life is not hampered by its broken 
chamber. 

We found groups of these manifesting while 
waiting for death to separate the walls of the 
temple of flesh. We concluded all life is per- 
fect though incased in an imperfect physical 
body. The question of life after death is one 
for study, not for scoffing or amusement. We 
also discovered there was neither high nor low 
spirits ; all life is at par ; some are more ad- 
vanced along certain lines but all walk to- 
gether ; there are no tiers, one after another. 

There are leaders, but no rulers. There is 
no authority sitting in judgment and no long 
line waiting to be judged. All are workers, 
each helps the other, for activity is a law in 
nature. Mortal mind exists among the more 
ignorant ones but that is mainly the result 
of fear caused by the afore mentioned false 
teachings. 



January 29, 1920 

Today we visited an asylum for those win 
died in the faith. We found here those who 
had believed in the Hell and Heaven reward 
for earth life. Having died in full conscious- 
ness that death was taking place, radiant in 
the love and thought of the Savior's recep- 
tion, upon finding themselves thrown among 
those who for many years they had been pray- 
ing and paying tithes for, believing them in 
Hell, was too much for their poor tired souls. 

Seventy-five years of service to an unknown 
God in faith, through his son had left no time 
for thought. These poor bewildered souls were 
raving and cursing as no mortal could do. 

The little children they had committed to 
God when only a few months old or tender 
years of youth, full of hope, how resigned they 
had been to give back to God, His own ; to find 
them in company with their father, who had 
not served and knew not God. Oh! the bet- 
terness. we .beheld in this group. Those' who 
had received the sight of after-life and had 
loved ones in this place, were watching and 
waiting patiently until their grief and fear 
could subside, (for nature will dominate and 
all Life is perfect) that they might lead them 



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to the homes their loving hands had builded 
for them. This, I was told, is accomplished for 
some in a very few hours; others taking 
months, sometimes years ; that depends how 
blind the person was in their faith. Those who 
had the torch of Knowledge and had just a ray 
of light, recovered more quickly. Some believe 
some grave mistake has been made and plod 
on in perfect faith that they would find their 
trust had not been in vain. 

We were conducted to another group where 
they believed in the second death. Here they 
preached and prayed the same as they had 
done in the flesh world but had left off their 
credal robes. Here the more advanced ones 
had made altars to themselves and were being 
worshipped as Christs. It is these groups of 
people, contacting with those still in the flesh 
world that are keeping the religion and false 
teachings alive. Greed abounds, for they will 
not allow their followers freedom ; they are 
known as ghouls among those who have freed 
themselves and are able to go and come at 
will. These groups are in bands, watching for 
new arrivals. There is great distress among 
these bands because of the independence of the 
new arrivals, who have freed themselves from 
fear while yet in the flesh body. 

I am resolved to teach of the great Life be- 
yond the mortal vision with its limitless and 
boundless opportunity of study and advance- 
ment ; the great universe with its groups of 



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central suns must be studied as we study the 
maps of countries other than the one in which 
we dwell. 

The world must be freed from its God bound, 
fear-serving worship of a Savior and learn to 
speak the language of Life that crime and 
ignorance may be abolished. The day of slavery 
must go ; we must be free and independent, 
seeking advancement, not Heaven. We must 
learn the disadvantage of being in ignorance 
and the joy we may posses through knowledge. 



January 31, 1920 



This morning we passed through, a village 
with temples and courts : here we found a 
peculiar people all dressed in King's robes and 
wearing crowns. Upon inquiring, we found 
them to be a village composed of those whose 
central sun was a desire to rule. There were in 
this same village, King worshippers, so level had 
found level. They were all happy ; we found 
among these people many who had died in 
recent years but the majority was of older 
type ; these were still at war and were schem- 
ing and planning how to enlarge their terri- 
tory. These are they who journey into the 
minds of those still in the flesh world, stir up 
strife and plan wars. 

In studying these people we were carried in- 
to the minds of many of our noted people of 
the present time, and discovered their minds 
were like great tracts of land, teeming with 
cultivation or gutted by commercial traffic. 
Darting here and there through the various 
channels in the minds of these men and 
women, we found these from this group. Phys- 
ical dimensions are so much more easily ob- 
served than are those whose education is along 
advancement and Life culture. 



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Commercial industry attracts people from 
these villages in great numbers, for gold is 
their central sun ; gold and the possession of 
precious jewels. When a man or woman has 
not the possessive powers to attract both the 
commercial gold and the priceless life of a 
soul, they surround themselves with the one 
dimension and become great men and women 
in the eyes of the worshippers of these. The 
same holds good with the others and they are 
rich in love and greater wisdom of Life but 
without possession of gold and jewels. 

The law in Life is the same throughout the 
whole Universe. Men and women are bound 
only by their lack of knowledge of these things 
and are loosed by the possession. 

In our search for knowledge, we have tra- 
veled the heights and depths in the lives of 
those in whose company we found ourselves. 
We have read the records written in the books 
of their lives and find the scars of the ages 
left by the forefathers upon their children, but 
we have found that the faintest ray of knowl- 
edge of Life would light up these barren 
places and make of them shining helmets. If 
we could save the world it would only be done 
in one' way, and that would be in teaching 
all people that each life, old or young, rich 
or poor, are responsible for themselves and 
each other in this, that he who stumbles, 
causes others to stumble. I would train the 
tiny babe to knoV that Iif§ in the temple of 



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flesh was a precious possession and should be 
cared for. I would teach the child that eating 
and drinking 1 was for the purpose of maintain- 
ing health ; that to feast or fast was a crime 
against nature. Of course, to do this, one 
would have to begin with the oldest persons 
and break them of this most disgusting and 
abusive habit, going on daily. It should be the 
duty of all Governments and all in authority 
to study ways and means of preserving and 
prolonging Life. The study of Life should be 
in all the schools of today. The study of Life 
after Death is the study of Life before Death 
and going back still farther, the study of 
Life before death is the study of Life before 
birth. We love to visit with our beloved dead 
but when we want knowledge we search among 
the Master minds, those who can teach us of 
the Universe and tell us things never recorded 
in any history or age so far. The Bible says, 
"Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think 
ye have Eternal Life," but we think in this 
age we should begin to realize that to go on 
searching the Scriptures for Eternal Life is to 
go on wasting valuable time. Let us in this 
day search the Universe for knowledge, that 
we may say we know we have Eternal Life. 

Get away from the narrow confines that yes- 
terday held us in and grapple with the un- 
known, that all forces in nature may be under- 
stood. Let each group have their central sun 
and let it be their light ; but let those who 



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would travel the Universe for knowledge be not 
forced to sit and worship in a lip service. 

Oh, Boundless Universe ! I'll ride the wave 
and stem the tide ; Oh Masters of the winds, 
teach me to guide ! Oh Stars, you hold the 
sparkling gems my soul would wear ! Oh ! 
Morn ! I would know the law from whence you 
get your power to ride all through the dark 
night ; and Sun, I will not worship, for I will 
know from whence your fire is kindled that all 
the world is warmed and fed. Oh Soul of 
Man, why linger and worship at the image 
of man ; Let all the world explore. All na- 
ture's law the same ; you are not bound, you 
are not in prison, you bind yourselves because 
you lie still and wait. You are in prison be- 
cause you will not unlock the gate. Loose the 
girth ; turn the key ; you are all powerful ; you 
are all possessive ; walk ye as men and women, 
not with blanched faces and downcast eyes but 
alert, faces full of joy, eyes beholding the 
mountain top. Know of your own life ; cast 
out fear ; fill your hearts with longing after 
knowledge, that you may bless your own life 
and pour blessings on the world. Each Life is 
a seed of promise and a pearl of great price. 
You are its keeper; let no man or false teach- 
ing rob you of your life. Awaken to the call of 
loved ones and live. 



February 2, 1920 

Just as the child goes through school from 
the kindergarten, until he graduates from the 
last school, taking up the life work, so does 
the child who dies in infancy grow. If there 
is no one to claim the child at death birth, 
they are taken by the state and cared for until 
they are claimed, either by those whose flesh 
dimension gives them the right, or till other 
members of the family arrive, who are able to 
care for them, which rarely ever occurs, for 
the simple reason, there are so few who do not 
have to be cared for upon their arrival. 

When a child is born into the earth dimen- 
sion, it is customary to say, "a child has ar- 
rived," or " a child is coming" and prepara- 
tions are made for its arrival or birth. The 
same care is given when a life is born into 
spirit dimension. 

We have previously recorded in "Our jour- 
ney through space" of finding villages, groups 
and bands ; we place these thus to simplify 
our records. The bands, we call religious 
ghouls for they lie in wait for those who die 
in the faith and ensnare them to the villages 
where the crafty onea are impersonating the 
Savior. These, too, are forced into warfare to 



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uphold the church. God worship still goes on 
among these people ; they do not get many- 
children, because the more advanced men and 
women of the spirit dimension have a very 
strong organization for the protection of these 
children, especially children born out of wed- 
lock as the law of the various countries so un- 
justly classify the child born of the Holy 
Ghost, (Nature), or the mother of Life. These 
organizations do not force the new born to 
follow their light but point the way to the 
halls of learning. Sooner or later all the mis- 
guided ones will reach the summit of the under- 
standing of life. Much time is wasted and it 
is to overcome this that the eternal vigilance 
is kept. 

The knowledge of Life after Death will 
spread rapidly now for these master minds 
are preparing the mortal mind to recognize 
life. Those who are freed from fear and super- 
stition before the surrender of the physical 
body, are able to collect themselves very 
quickly and are a great help to all whom they 
journey with. 

There is one beautiful thing we find and that 
is, each life holds its own inner portal sacred ; 
there is a threshold each seem to be conscious 
of which another could not cross. In the flesh 
dimension this threshold exists but the mortal 
mind has not as yet awakened to this pos- 
session. There are a few who have realized 
this. 



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Let us bring to your attention this fact; 
you may have thought of it ; did you ever think 
how many things there are that no one can 
do for you ; let us mention one, no one can 
think for you, when we say think, we do 
not mean plan. When we say you, we re- 
fer to Life, not the physical temple of flesh. 
The physical temple of flesh is gathered by 
Life but Life does not have full control. Life 
does not lay down the body or take it up, but 
while Life serves in the body, it can lay it 
down and take it up. This law enables us to 
journey through space and into vacuum where 
the body can not be taken. Sleep is a hypnotic 
condition, provided by Life and the physical 
temple rests while Life forages for its supply. 
The attachment of Life to the body is similar 
to but not like the chord which connects the 
young with its mother which is severed at 
birth. This chord o life is atmospheric and is 
affected by any activity which would destroy 
the body. Life then is recalled or the chord is 
severed. 

Trance conditions are dangerous, because a 
trance is produced by another and Life is 
either set aside or imprisoned for the time be- 
ing. If the operator and Life becomes entan- 
gled, trouble to the physical body ensues. The 
physical body is the engine, so to speak ; there 
have been cases where Life is made a prisoner 
in its own engine room while another runs the 
engine. This can not be called a hypnotic con- 



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dition. Keep the body separate from the Life, 
in mind when analyzing this question. The 
physical body is the engine ; Life is the en- 
gineer ; the different parts of the body are as 
the couplings and boilers of the engine. When 
Life does not feed the body, it dies ; we do not 
aim to define but rather to place, before our 
readers the raw material that they may study 
the outlines. It is our object to point the way, 
not to fill the gap. 

The question of Life is the question of the 
universe and man is only a spark. There is 
only one channel through which man can ad 
vance while functioning in the flesh dimension 
and that is by coming into contact with those 
who have passed through other dimensions. 
Keep the school children always in mind with 
their teachers ; it is not humbleness but wis- 
dom ; not faith, but knowledge, the children of 
the flesh dimension must have to enable them 
to be perfectly born into the spirit dimension. 

There are many births because there are 
many deaths ; you die daily in a physical sense 
and are born the same, but the great death 
and birth is the graduation from college to 
Life. The smaller ones are from grade to grade. 
In this age, man should seek knowledge 
through every avenue and not be a stumbling 
block and a stench to those who would know 
life. You can destroy fabric but you cannot de- 
stroy Life- The chemists reveal the law and 
various dimensions of flowers and plant life. 



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The scientists devise and divine, the doctors 
analyze ; the ministers teach ; the world eulog- 
ises, yet not one of these take one step or 
speak one word of Life and stand with ap- 
palling, upraised hands, sepulchers of the past, 
warning the people of the danger, they have 
no knowledge of and will not explore. "It hath 
been said, thus far and not farther shalt thou 
go." Fear holds them back, yet they know the 
ground is giving way from under their feet by 
the many seekers after the truth, who do not 
fear and scorn their upraised hands and turn 
a deaf ear to their shrill cry of warning. Like 
a scare-crow in the midst of a waving field of 
grain while the people devour the living truth, 
leaving them to the company of the timid ones 
who will not investigate. If you would know 
Life, let the dead speak. 



February 10, 1920 

The question of place in the spirit dimen- 
sion is a question of discussion and many 
opinions have been given. What we record, we 
know for we have walked and talked with 
those now in this dimension of life and just as 
we walked from location to location, finding 
men and women going to church, to the theater, 
to give alms, to rob, to find pleasure, to engage 
in work, all passing each other, one not know- 
ing the other, so are they in spirit dimension. 
The outer garment in the flesh dimension is the 
symbol of wealth of purse ; their faces tell of 
their training ; their actions tell of their status 
to the observing one. 

We have told you the atmosphere is a solid 
substance and a world, not arising from the 
earth but independent, just as one counrty is 
separate from another, yet held together and 
serving each the other. This atmospheric 
world is the substance on which the feet of 
the spirit rest, just as the earth is the sub- 
stance on which the feet of the physical rest ; 
the desire put into action carries the form 
from place to place just as the desire moves 
the physical. The advancement of the life di- 
rects the desire and the central sun draws them 
into groups. 



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To know of Life, make comparisons. Will 
to know, becomes a truth ; seek that you may 
be a torch bearer ; be not content to be a para- 
site feeding from the efforts of others. Sight 
is your inheritance ; do not sell it for a mess 
of pottage. Begin with the analysis of the 
brain. The brain is more than the map of 
bone and membrance you see pictured in me- 
dical books. The brain is a world, peopled 
with many people. It has rivers and valleys, 
oceans and lands, seaports and great cities ; 
is gutted with traffic and paved with, precious 
jewels. In your brain are drones and workers, 
giving and taking ; the great brain stomach is 
the terminal where all exchange is made. 
Here you find both, good and bad ; the robbers 
of your life are here and the merchants are 
busy at their post of duty. A constant war- 
fare is going on, first one is master, and then 
the other ; the scale of life goes up, then down 
and those in authority over the temple of 
flesh judges the garment life wears by its 
rags or fine linen, by its exterior presentation. 

Life after Death is looked upon by those in 
the flesh dimension as being in two classes, 
the saved and the sinner, we have not found 
it thus ; there is a different purpose in every 
life and must be fulfilled. 

Each life is a world in itself and in the great 
cauldron of experience we come forth at last 
master minds, for at each new birth we find 
we have left a cumbersome body of toil. We 



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have passed the earth atmosphere and light 
dimensions. We find that those in the light di- 
mension enter into the atmosphere and earth 
conditions and those in the earth dimension 
enter into the other two, through special prep- 
arations just as a man clothes himself in 
proper garments, when going out of his reg- 
ular activities into others ; just as the air- 
man clothes himself for his trip or the miner 
takes his torch into the mine. 

All of life is dimensions and you are grouped 
according to your capacity ; how much do you 
know, is the pass-word and how willing are 
you to learn, are the questions that confronts 
every person, good or bad, young or old. These 
questions are internal and eternal ones, asked 
by yourself to yourself. You place yourself ; 
no one has the power to say, go here or go 
there ; all rests with you whether you seek the 
company of the wise man or gambol with the 
fool. Each stream finds its own bed ; there is 
no high or low, only as you make it so. 

Look at the giant oak and trace its origin 
to the acorn, then trace the acorn to the root 
of its producer. Where do you find the life of 
the oak? How many times did it drop its 
leaves and die to the world? Seek ye the 
knowledge of Life and know that in the past 
you was a voice, crying to be fed and clothed 
and because of this cry you are both fed and 
clothed. Wait not for tomorrow's sun to rise 
and set ; begin now to ask yourself the great 



JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 27 

question, out of where did I come, into where 
am I going? You are the voice of the wilder- 
ness and you are the voice of the shepard and 
you are makers of your own tabernacle. Peace 
can only come through the understanding of 
your own life, through wisdom's power, the 
torch in your own hand lights your own way, 
but in the hands of another, causes you to 
stumble. 



February 11, 1920 

We have been transported into a part of the 
country of the dead, which is a perfect garden 
of Eden. Here we find a wonderful stream, 
rich meadows, hills and valleys, birds in the 
trees and the air is filled with their songs, and 
perfume of flowers while bees and butterflies 
are gathering honey. The air is crisp and 
very delightful, these are they, who tilled the 
rich soil and their lives create wonderful me- 
lody and attract them to the bowers of nature. 
They are satisfied with Life as they have found 
it; they know they can talk with those left 
in the flesh world but are of the impression, 
that they themselves are at the gate of Heaven. 
These are of all church denominations, a few 
were independent thinkers but not free from 
the credal bondage. They have no science here 
but just a simple faith in God and the Savior, 
content in the things which give them Life. 
In this, as in others, they have been drawn 
together by the law of attraction, not that 
they attract each other but the central sun 
has attracted each one making a bond of sym- 
pathy or unity among them. They never mur- 
mur and while they are good and full of the 
meek and lowly devotion to their Savior they 
have no idea of exploring farther into the 
whys and wherefores of Life. 



JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 29 

Give us this day our daily bread, is their 
prayer and they toil from day to day, happy 
as little children with not a thought of the 
future for that lies in the power of Almighty 
God. Such simple faith deprives the life of 
progress. 

These are sleeping the sleep of the just ; 
when one awakens, he is cast out, for they 
do not allow a disturber in their colony. They 
know themselves as the "Lambs of the fold." 

Here also we found the impersonator of the 
Savior, paying his visit to his flock, teaching 
them and baptizing the new comers, in the 
faith. It was pitiable to look upon this scene 
and see the wonderful lies and snares in the 
promises of these ghouls. This impersonator 
walks slowly among these people dressed as 
they were accustomed to see the picture of their 
Savior while in the flesh world ; silent, with 
the saintly smile on his countenance, laying 
his hands on the more simple ones, blessing 
the children and disposing power upon those 
who would serve that they might bless the 
little group until the father should permit 
him to return to them again. Each time, pro- 
mising them a glimpse of that wonderful 
throne where they might some day be allowed 
to kneel at his feet. 

These impersonators through their agents 
are everywhere, playing on the weaknesses of 
the people, both in the spirit and the flesh di- 
mensions. 



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If the new arrival is a faith holder, he is 
fed on promises and told to have more faith ; 
if not, he is baited and if he bites he is put 
on probation and given glimpses of his Sa- 
vior, but must not look up. Through dropped 
eyelids he beholds the Wonderful One. (See 
Raymond, and "Thy Son liveth.") Then be- 
gins the march to the training camp ; if he 
does not bite, they try trickery and often are 
able to imprison those who are not able to 
protect themselvs ; all depends on yourself ; if 
you are self-reliant and have to have every- 
thing in black and white, you are passed up 
and set up as a horrible example, to the trust- 
ing ones you are shown as in Hell suffering the 
tortures of the damned, filling all those who 
are on the way to the training camp with fear. 

The art of impersonation among these peo- 
ple is perfect because of the fear through 
ignorance of the people yet in the flesh world. 
Only when the people of the flesh world free 
themselves from the bondage of these false 
teachings and realize the one law, in one life, 
manifesting through all ages and that knowl- 
edge of this law governing life brings the in- 
dividual into full power and possession of his 
or her life through the advancement which 
comes daily as a result of experience, mani- 
festing in each part and particle of life can 
the freedom of Humanity be gained. The re- 
velation of Life then, is what Humanity needs 
today. 



February 16, 1920 

In our exploration today, we are contact- 
ing" more generaly with those who have been 
satisfied to always remain in the environments 
of those still in the flesh world. We find here 
also the atmosphere around each one holds 
them in what might be called gravity or mag- 
netic poise, yet does not in any way disturb 
the physical body in which contact is made. 
I find hundreds of the so-called dead, filling 
the rooms in which one person is living, en- 
joying everything with the person and seem 
not to be interested in anything else except 
what the person they are attracted to, does. 
Others have surrounded themselves with equip- 
ment and are not conscious that they are in 
the environment of those still in the flesh 
world ; seem to think themselves the only ten- 
ant. These I would classify as physical spirits. 

I have failed to find any condition that war- 
rants the many scares that are afloat about 
devils, evil spirits or earth-bound ones. I find 
that these can be attracted by a teacher in the 
flesh but can not be reached by a teacher in 
*the spirit. 

There is a density of some substance which 
is not easily penetrated ; this substance I will 



32 JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 

esompare to the intellectual substance. A child 
can learn to spell "cat" with the understand- 
ing of its meaning from the picture of a cat. 
When it sees the cat, it immediately connects 
it with the word it has learned to spell, but 
give the child the letters without he symbol 
and it would not know a cat from a dog. 

These spirits can see the teacher in the 
flesh where they can not see the teacher in the 
spirit form. We were told by one, who had 
been dead 35 years, that the reason it is so 
hard to give the world information, concern- 
ing how they live is, because there is nothing 
to make comparison with, and without an il- 
lustration it is difficult to give a comprehen- 
sive description, and too, the whole world 
seems bent on having them dead and will not 
study beyond the earth dimension. They shut 
the door in their face, shutting themselves but 
and burying their loved ones, the only ones 
who can tell them whether there be life beyond 
the change called death. It is pitiful to see 
some of these who have just died, mourning 
for their loved ones, who will not hear or see. 
I will insert here a message from a sister, 
received in a private interview, which will 
illustrate this condition. 



Greetings : — 

To say they have just gone away, where I 
can meet them in the afterwhile, does not 
ease the pain or kill the fire that is burning up 
my heart. To say that they are sleeping, to 
awaken at the trumpet call with all the souls 
that have gone before, is an empty solace. 

What comfort can I find? Where are my 
dead? Here, you say, where I can see their 
smiling faces and the bright look in their 
eyes. Do not mock me. Oh yes ! Not from the 
skies are they looking upon you ; but standing 
by your side, ever ready to bestow upon you 
their warmest embrace, comforting you in no 
uncertain way. Open the door ; you are the 
slumberer, I hear her say; I have been knock- 
ing since first you thought me dead. I am 
not asleep ; You are the sleeping one, because 
you believe me sleeping; you are the dead one, 
because you believe me dead. I am here to 
help you find the way that I have found, the 
life, the loay, where everyone is full of life and 
joy in their great happiness that they can 
comfort you and tell you of this new world ; 
and then the bitter cup o'erflows, because you 
do not hear my word ; because you do not see 
my face and respond to my caress. I grieve ; 
you do not grieve for you are left with friends 
who can give you life and I am all alone in 
death. You sorrow for me ; I grieve for you 
and the door swings shut because you can not 
hear. 



February 23, 1920 

I do not want the reader to be offended at 
what I am about to state, but rather reason 
concerning the facts. It is not what I believe 
or you ; it is facts we want. The world is in 
bondage today because men and women have 
not been allowed to think for themselves. Men 
in all ag'es have set themselves up as rulers, 
some going so far as to say they were elected to 
their self-exalted position by an act of God. 
See the 3rd chapter, 13-17 verses in the book 
of Mathew of the Bible ; also many others in 
the old historic days of the old testament. In 
this age of advancement, education, steam and 
electricity, automobiles and flying machines 
and the greater discoveries in chemistry, the 
telescope and talking machine, not to mention 
millions of others, when one comes among us 
saying, "I have heard the voice and beheld 
the form of one dead" our ears are filled with 
the din and flatter of those saintly and Godly 
defenders of the Holy Book, saying it is not 
so, it must be the Devil tempting us, yet those 
same men and women will uphold as sacred 
writ the story of Jesus' miraculous birth, tak- 
ing Mary's word for it that she had met the 
Holy Ghost. Could a virgin get away with a 
story of that kind in this age of advancement? 



JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 35 

Is it not preposterous to think of Life in such 
a narrow confine that one man could appear 
on the face of the earth all law and all titles 
should pass away and only the law which he 
set down should live and no other law but the 
one he gave should ever be established. Is it 
not in the vision of good common sense, redi- 
culous? Why do men fear to break away from 
the shackles of ignorance? Salvation from sin 
is salvation from ignorance for when summed 
up and boiled down, ignorance is the only sin 
man has to contend with or needs to fight. 



Apkil 6, 1920 

Little children continue to mature after the 
change called death, takes place. We find 
these in homes where they are cared for by 
loving hands. We have so far found nothing 
that resembles the Catholic Purgatory or the 
Protestants' Hell ; but we do find a state of 
mind which could be called either one. We 
have found that the state of bliss that the 
world is looking for, calling it Heaven, is 
largely an undeveloped state of mind and what 
we would really call Heaven, is after the in- 
dividual has learned enoug'h about the con- 
tinued development of life to enjoy the ever 
new scenes one comes into through the ac- 
tivities resulting from the constantly increas- 
ing revelations of life. Not after death, but 
all life. The deduction from yesterday, the 
reality of today and the anticipation of ever ' 
new fields to discover. To us, this is Heaven ; 
it has no boundary lines, no "don't," but ever 
a welcome for the searcher after truth. We 
find great minds who in their effort to edu- 
cate the mortal minds, are looked upon as 
God. As a result of this attitude by man the 
teachings of these minds are mis-construed by 
those who are able to receive. The mis-inter- 
pretation of the teachings of the early ages 
have bound humanity to the altar of sacrifice 



JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 37 

and until the people of earth can be aroused 
to the pitiable, mental bondage, they are in 
and awaken to the call of Life, there is little 
hope of the world ever gaining a position in 
the Universe better than the beasts of the 
jungle. 

In education, there is salvation ; the idea of 
Hell and Heaven has divided Humanity into 
two classes, Devils and Angels, each serving 
a task master, God and the Devil ; and so 
through all time the warfare of these two 
have cursed Humanity. But a new light appears 
it might be truly called, the resurrection 
dawn ; for with keen ear and clear vision we 
behold our loved ones in life, not death, walk- 
ing and talking with us in our homes, not in 
Hell or Heaven, neither sleeping, but alert, in- 
terested in the old haunts and the small mat- 
ters in life, the things that trouble us and the 
things that bring joy to our hearts ; giving us 
wisdom and undersanding of life ; taking away 
fear and placing in our hand the new revela- 
tion of life. 

Let not one man's opinion of himself handed 
down through the dark ages of war and mys- 
tery cripple Humanity longer, but Oh Man ! 
arise, loose the shackles of creed bound super- 
stition, walk forth clothed in power, born of 
wisdom ; know your dead live and it is through 
that knowledge your burdens may be lifted, 
your wounds healed, and your heart sing with 
joy because of Life. 



April 7, 1920 

Looking back on our own career or develop- 
ment, we can readily see how it is so many I 
false statements have been received ; the na- 
tural state of mind is to grow as any other 
part of the body, but as this " special part of 
the body is dependent somewhat on outside 
influences as the flower is dependent on the 
sunshine and rain for its support, it too, like 
the flower becomes weak and oftimes crippled. 
The false teaching of Heaven and Hell have 
prevented man from thinking along natural 
lines when it comes to the question of human 
life. 

The idea of distances here and there, up 
and down, have taken such a hold on man's 
brain that it is hard to find one who is free 
from it. Advancement does not mean travel 
in furlongs and miles. Get away from physical 
dimensions and think along constructive lines ; 
for example, does the child go anywhere to 
gain the high estate of man? Form the habit 
of thinking of life, independent, free, able to 
travel in mind world. Get away from the 
thought of dimension, space, up or down, in 
or out. 

Let us have modern lines of thought in the 
study of this question of Life after Death, 



JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 39 

looking at it from a common sense point of 
view. It is not compulsory that life goes any 
special place because the body of flesh no 
longer serves it more than it is necessary for 
you to go some place because one suit of 
clothes wears out ; you only go to your tailor 
and get a new one and you do that before the 
old one is discarded. Life has many changes 
of garments ; we dwell in time and space, 
know all matters for in it we are a part. 

Get away from the narrow confines of think- 
ing, rid your minds of the fear of an aveng- 
ing God, cease to worship and beg for the 
things the rmiverse holds free of charge for 
you. Create your own Heaven and rid yourself 
of your Hell through common sense thinking. 
Analyze the question without prejudice, get 
your own evidence, be diligent, willing to 
sacrifice pleasure that leaves you weary, for 
the flower which feeds, clothes and houses 
your life. Material, food and shelter you must 
have, but the greater knowledge of life brings 
you all of these, for you get in touch with all 
supply. 

The question of conversing with loved ones 
gone, is not half as important as to get close 
to the laws of nature, which, through under- 
standing them you draw all supply to yourself. 
Your loved ones seek you for their satisfac- 
tion ; any help they can give you, helps them. ; 
but to get in touch with the great minds of 



40 JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 

the Universe should be the aim of those who| 
are seeking the truth of the Living Life. 

Life after Death must be natural for it is I 
the next step in the evolution of the fulfillment | 
of Life. We do not use the word creation in 
connection with evolution, for we have caug'ht a 
glimpse of life through growth, therefore none 
are created. 

We have come into our present day of evolu- 
tion through the law of change and until our 
vision can carry us into the secret of the past, 
we are only blind leaders of the blind. 



April 20, 1920 

This morning we journeyed as it were 
through a mist ; one coud almost call it a veil, 
seemingly untenanted, but as one's eyes be- 
came accustomed to its reflection we saw it 
was peopled with the same symetrical group- 
ing as many other colonies we had visited. 
-These, upon investigation were found to be 
chemists ; the mist is what is called emena- 
tions from the chemical changes going on. 

We realized as never before, how the mortal 
mind has so entangled itself, not realizing the 
power of the greater vision of understanding, 
have been blind leaders of the blind. Let us 
hope chemistry will break down all the walls 
of fear and superstition holding men in bond- 
age to the end we may have the laws of the 
Universe taught in our schools ; give the 
child's brain something to feed upon and it 
will develope itself just as the flower grows to 
fulfillment. We do not find in these groups 
all the people who have passed into the spirit 
dimension, but these we find are those who 
were seeking knowledge and are drawn together 
by their ambition. In these groups of scientists, 
chemists, doctors and so forth,, are the master 
minds who once peopled the earth and gave to 
humanity its advancement, though many of 



42 JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 

them were put to death, because of their| 
greater vision. 

There is another and greater group froml 
which these groups draw their knowledge and| 
I may be permitted to visit this group later. 

We have to advance in knowledge to be able I 
to see these different classes of groups just as al 
child finds its way from one grade to the other [ 
in school. The end comes with the majority at 
the graduation of the grammar school, many 
not even that. 

The college and University are dreams to 
the grammar school student and the larger 
per cent of the High School pupils. These 
could be called spheres or planes in the flesh 
dimension, but they are called grades which 
to my mind would be a better word to use in 
speaking of the life after the change, called 
death. It is the aim of these records to make 
plain, not to mystify. 

We find that Life is the study of life in all its 
dimensions whether it be before birth or after 
death and to get the most out of life, should be 
our chief concern. Study and pleasure, both 
should be our plan, but if study is made the 
chief factor, we would find our greatest pleas- 
ure in the development of our brain matter 
that we may be more proficient in our pleas- 
ure. The power of might is passing before the 
great tribunal, , knowledge, and in another de- 
cade will have fallen with its predecessors, 
•the false Gods of greed and creed. 



JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 43 

The sunlight of knowledge is pentrating 
every brain cell in every human mind and will 
overthrow the monsters of the past ages who 
have watered the land and colored the waters 
of the earth with the blood of men, women and 
children. 

The ruler shall be he of his own temple for 
man in his greater understanding of life shall 
see and judge as he sees and judges himself, 
and will not dare give himself a right that he 
cannot give his neighbor ; for as you judge 
yourself, so must you judge your neighbor. 

Let us enter the halls of learning and know 
about life. Let the voice of loved ones be 
heard ; the voice of wisdom speaks through 
every living creature in the Universe. Let all 
life speak to us that we may know there is 
no death, only change. 

Up to the present time we have only sup- 
position to base our theories on. The word 
of a few men who served themselves well in 
other days ; scientific research has opened many 
avenues and will open many more, but we will 
never get a true sense of being until each 
child in each generation comes into its own 
inheritance. As long as we must hold the 
halter of the past, we cannot take the bit ; 
we must declare our right to explore ; let us 
lead in his age of science. 



May 7, 1920 

This morning we find ourselves on an eleva- 
tion ; this is simply a mental plateau where | 
we can look down upon other plateaus ; where | 
we are the sun is shining and where the others 
are it is dense fog. This, I assume, is what is 
called by so many, spheres or planes. This can 
be compared to the ascent of a balloon with 
the ascent of the flying machine and their rela- 
tion each to the other, and the earth. In other 
words, they are above the clouds ; but we feel 
these are only degrees of understanding and can 
be illustrated by many lesser things in the 
activities of life. In the flesh world we call 
them scales. 

Take the Government for example and use 
the different offices and positions for compa- 
rison ; all living, so to speak by and under the 
same law of control yet in different social 
scales. Now these spheres so commonly talked 
about by writers and told about by so many 
spirits are social and intellectual scales and 
may be found in all walks of life, good, bad 
and intermediate. Some are classed according 
to strength, some, money is the dividing line ; 
we have many planes in this physical dimen- 
sion but the most pronounced is the saved and 
the sinner but they are not called spheres or 
planes but walks in life. 



JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 45 

All life is one, my dear reader, and the great 
law of change encompass all creation. 
Heaven is a state of mind and there are many 
Heavenly groups and many Hellish groups, 
whether in the flesh or spirit dimension, it 
matters not. The difference is supposition, 
which is the result of training ; man has been 
taught of Heaven and Hell as a place that ex- 
ists after the change, called death, and has 
never thought to analyze the same condition 
existing in the flesh world as being in the same 
department of life. 

Learn to live the full life and know that the 
one thing necessary to insure happiness after 
the change is to make first class use of the 
sojourn in the* physical ; just the same as a 
tree, unless the root is good, the tree will be 
scrawny and the fruit blasted. 

Learn to think, analyze and realize if you 
want to enjoy the blessings of life here and 
hereafter. Get out of the fog of ignorance born 
of fear. Get above the clouds of other peoples 
thinking and see for yourselves the great life 
of which you are a part. Don't be a parasite ; 
be able to say "I know." 

We claim for humanity, there are no gifts 
because there are no boundary lines. Sweep 
on, oh soul, and see the glories of life which 
are yours. Let nothing deter or detain you. 
The whole Universe is within your vision 
therefore within your grasp Explore. 



3VUY 10, 1920 

Today we resumed our journey through 
space. We seemed to travel as the wind ; we 
realized we were traveling* ; we realized we 
still possessed a flesh body but we became vi- 
brant with a life fluid which held us poised 
as it were in mid air. Our eyes were like 
telescopes ; our ears became keen and while we 
were not remote from earth and the physical 
dimension, yet we were everywhere present. 

The glories of the earth were at our side, 
the birds singing in a far away clime, seemed 
to be in a room with us even as we knew we 
were writing. It is as though we, I, am every- 
where in the great Universe, time and space ; 
mind is as nothing for mind does not exist out 
of the physical ; the record of all things are 
written and you read at will ; you are record 
that which you are in the physical, limited as 
to action, is as a shadow, yet we know all 
limitation is only a shadow and we pass 
through it as we pass through mist on a foggy 
morning going about our daily task. 

It is interesting to enter the mind of one 
who is just beginning to awaken from the mys- 
tery of life ; like a child in a large city of 
strangers, opening wide its eyes or crying out 
in wonder, they want to tell all they have seen 



JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 47 

and heard in one breath and call it wonderful. 
All mystery is the child state of mind ; we 
behold these things and compare them with 
the things we are accustomed to and find the 
relation, one to the other realizing that one is 
the outgrowth of the other. 

We found the animal kingdom represented. 
All nature is represented. We found household 
pets surviving the death of the physical body; 
horses too, and it may sound like idle talk to 
those who have not given thought to these 
things, but the smallest insect was in its 
spheres of life. Nothing dies after it has en- 
tered into the life vibration of the earth planet. 

We hope to be able to write about other 
planets before long. We passed through the 
clouds and they are vapor, no substance as far 
as the life vibration is concerned just as the 
mind or thought travels through solid sub- 
stance or great distance, life goes intact, here 
and there, fully conscious of its surroundings. 
We are only limited because we are too ready 
to use the words can't and don't. 

Death, as we said before, is not necessary 
for the release of life ; those who are afraid 
of death can not hope to gain much freedom, 
while they have the physical body. Overcome 
death while yet in the physical body and you 
will have no fear when death actually occurs. 
You will enter into the grade of life which 
you have learned about, free or . bdund, as: your 



I 

48 JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE / 

/ 

mind has registered on that great registry, 
which is called Life. 

We use the word Life to express all things 
which endure. The greater the advancement, 
the more desirous one is to help the children 
of earth. We deny the statement of those who 
claim advancement so great as to make it im- 
possible to mingle with those still in the 
physical. One would think they were talking 
about a piece of machinery rather than a life 
whose law is change. Common sense in this 
question is all that is needed to clear the 
minds of the people from mystery and mystic- 
ism and free the world from the bondage of idle 
worship of any person or persons. Star gazing 
has been the downfall of nations, but the 
steady tramp of restless feet have made dis- 
coveries of the earths riches. 

Let us move onward and embrace the stars 
in our march toward civilization and greater 
attainment. 

Let us be sane in our thinking and we will 
be constructive in our actions. The stars hold 
nothing from you ; you bar your own way be- 
cause you stand gazing at one who has taken 
the step you dare not take and fear to follow. 

i 

Awaken, sleepers, the dawn of a new day is 
here ! Your house of mystery is falling. Be- 
hold the changing world about and seek safety 
in knowledge. Let those who will chant their 
praises to an unkndwn God and worship the 



JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 49 

self-styled Savior, but let the little children of 
the future carve their own lives unhindered 
by laws written in the precious blood of the 
people of earth. Join the march to progress. 
Let the scoffer wallow in his bed of ignorance, 
but let the wise man be on his journey up the 
steep hill of progress. Hail, all Hail to pro- 
gress, when man and woman shall no longer 
see through a veil of mystery, but in the full 
sight of knowledge stand face to face in 
knowledge through the exploration of all space 
and know all life. 

We are standing on the summit of a hill 
and looking over the world moving here and 
there in frantic streams and slowly, very 
slowly, they are forming a line of march and 
where once chaos ruled we now see in each 
hand a flag of victory and this line is un- 
broken save for a few frantic counselors, who 
will not join the ranks of the thinkers. This 
we know means the whole world joins the rank 
and file of the knowers of the word, while 
only a very few remain faith-holders. 

Let them shout ; let them rave ; let them de- 
nounce ; let them threaten ; knowledge is power 
and to be ignorant of the law of life is to be 
a slave. The Universe is teeming with all 
knowledge. Lift up your eyes, beloved ones 
in toil, where ever you are and take the staff 
of life. Live and grow. 



May 12, 1920 

Let us consider the question of life from 
a common sense view point First, let us be 
willing the dead should live ; let us consider it 
is just possible ; let us consult the law about 
life and refrain from quoting men, who in other 
things could not compare with men in our own 
generation or present time. Let us see how 
long it has taken man to render a verdict of 
guilty or not guilty. 

The process of reasoning is great ; so let us 
use our reasoning powers in this greater ques- 
tion of life. 

The old woman's reason "because" no longer 
rules ; a thing must be so because of the law 
which governs it and unless you have dis- 
covered the law you can not bring a verdict. 
Life is, because it was, and will be because it 
is. Very well, out of what did life come? Out 
of a seed through the process of change. This 
seed has many parts ; each part a vibration and 
through the momentum the shell holding life 
gave way and life came forth a ray of light, so 
to. speak, magnetic in power, elastic in sub- 
stance, systematic in form, united in purpose, 
harmonious in nature. Speed is ruled by ac- 
tion, of the vibratory pulse of the Universe, 
as a whole, Life is in layers, go to speak 



JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 51 

and the power of gestation sheds these lay- 
ers ; sacks they may be called. 

The word death is ony a symbol ; birth 
would be a more fitting word in one sense, but 
birth signifies new life, while death should 
mean maturity or the closing of a chapter. 

You say the sun goes down, or the sun sets 
and in your mind is the thought of a new 
day. Why not say at death "the sun has set, 
and it heralds a new life?" It is the result of 
ages that you give no thought to the setting of 
the Sun ; it is also the result of ages that you 
give no thought to the question of life after 
death. 

Time, money and great effort is being made 
to discover more knowledge about the sun, 
moon and stars, the use of all minerals and 
metals which the earth yields, the feeding of 
animals for the use of man ; the fashioning of 
jewels and clothing to adorn the person of 
man ; science brings us wonderful messages ; 
inventors are busy ; chemists are busy, but 
when the study of Life comes up and the ques- 
tion of life after death is broached there the 
barrier "don't" and "thou shalt not" is raised 
and the intellectual sun of man is shut in be- 
hind the stone wall. 

What is there to be afraid of in the next 
room with just an imaginary line to keep us 
out ; with pale face and voice in whisper the 
guard stands with his flaming placard "keep 



52 JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 

out," barring the way. What fear holds man, 
that he dare not defy the guard and seek his 
most priceless jewel, Life. What horror comes 
in the face of the timid when one, bolder than 
the rest, dodges the guard. What wails of 
agony, and fear to follow, even after the bold 
one calls back and says, "I have found my 
loved ones living, they have found Life." 

"No, no," you say and cover your eyes, stop 
up your ears, moan and weep under the lash of 
your task-masters who have held the whip 
over humanity for ages. Think and reason ; 
make comparisons, using your own life for 
example. Study nature ; compare our day with 
one or two hundred years ago and com- 
pare that with two thousand years ago and see 
what a fearless race has accomplished. Would 
you give your advancement for the- people of 
one hundred years ago or two thousand years 
ago? Would you give up our system of educa- 
tion and go back to the messenger on foot? 

Would you give your electric light for the 
brass candle stick, holding its ray of light? 
Would you give up our healthy games and 
sports for the bull-pens, the lion's den of the 
arena, where human lives were sacrificed for 
the entertainment of Kings and Queens? Would 
you want the inquisition back? Would you 
want Moses as your leader? Do you want to 
be led? Would you be satisfied, could you be 
satisfied ? Times have changed, you say ; we 
say no, man has changed and the change i? 



JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 53 

the result of knowledge which is the direct 
result of clear thinking and correct acting. 
Study this question of life and be willing to 
advance with the ever changing tide which 
sweeps humanity ever onward toward the goal 
which is constantly growing larger and larger 
as we near the portal gate. Sweep on, Oh 
Soul ! All life awaits. 



May 14th, 1920 

Greetings : — 

We find this morning in our travels a beau- 
tiful country, hills and valleys with wonderful 
meadows, watered by clear running brooks. 

Looking as it were into a mirror at the re- 
flection of some wonderful country at a dis- 
tance yet within the grasp of our hands. 

This is the country of those who have freed 
themselves from bondage ; walking along the 
slope of the hill and on the crest we saw men, 
women and children. Upon drawing closer to 
these folks we found them to be very far ad- 
vanced in the knowledge of the creation of the 
principle activities of the people of earth. The 
children could project themselves into the 
minds of those seeking communication with 
their loved ones and give them understanding; 
it is through this method the little child is 
able to utter such words of wisdom to its par- 
ents and loving friends, who still remain in 
the flesh world ; these are the ones who teach 
in the halls of learning. The stars are their 
light, so to speak, meaning splendor or wis- 
dom. 

We can readily see how in olden days men 
worshipped such as these and called them 



JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 55 

Gods, but in this age of great learning we are 
beginning to place these great minds in their 
proper relation to the whole universe. Man's 
fear of something he does not readily under- 
stand has created false Gods and images for 
worship. We have passed from the fear of the 
thunder and lightning, earthquake and vol- 
canic eruption and are studying laws that will 
overcome their power to do damage and force 
them to the service of man. 

The floods .which cause such great disaster, 
will soon be a thing of the past for the great 
drainage system and the deep water-ways will 
direct the surplus water into usefulness where 
now it rushes unchecked, destroying property 
and lives. 

Man will, in time, control the winds of the 
earth and the waste air will be utilized and 
distributed. As man awakens from his stupor 
and arises from his cramped position of wor- 
ship to that of ruler, the world will seek 
knowledge concerning the natural laws. When 
this can be accompished, only in part, the 
desire to kill will no longer be nourished and 
will die out. 

Man's desire to rule himself and not his 
brother will become paramount and the world 
will truly become a fit place to live in. Until 
we can have enough of these educators to 
change the trend of idle worship to real 
knowledge of the laws of the universe we can 



56 JOURNEYS THROUGH SPACE 

not hope for peace. War is the command of 
the God of Abraham and Moses, of Jesus and 
Paul. 

The first book of the Bible has for its law, 
destruction and the last book has for its 
law, cursing and destruction, and on the 
hinges of today, the book swings its bloody 
warfare both right and left. The sky reflects 
blood because the earth is drenched with it ; 
but now this reign of terror is passing and to- 
day the crack of the whip holds no terror for 
we know the hand that weilds it has lost its 
power to strike a forceful blow and while it 
will curl in mid-air and hiss for a space of 
time, humanity is fast rising supreme to its 
hissing and in time, it too will pass into an- 
cient history and the song of freedom will be 
on the lips of man. The day of weal and woe 
will be no longer with us. Oh man ! Stand up- 
right and demand; your's is the right to know : 
partake of the tree of knowledge and live; no 
evil can live where knowledge abounds ; serve 
life and call unto your loved ones ; they can 
hear you ; hold communion with those who 
have found Life, not Death. 



Communications 



PART TWO 



EXPLANATION 

Communication with the dead should revolu- 
tionize the whole thinking world and cause 
them to study LIFE in nature's law. 

Greetings : — 

The life that we have found is only our ex- 
perience just the same as the life that we 
found in the physical body was an experience. 
Death is simply being born again, not neces- 
sarily into a happier state or a more miser- 
able one. The death birth from the physical 
is somewhat different from the death birth to 
the physical ; in the latter you come into a 
state of living with what might be termed a 
loss of memory while in the former, you re- 
tain your memory. That memory depends 
greatly on the quality of thinking you did, and 
reflects remorse or happiness according to the 
life you led, constructive or destructive. We 
find that the Life itself is the creator of its 
own body ; conforming to the phase it func- 
tions in, pre-physical or post-physical ; subsists 
and clothes itself throwing off and taking on 
one body after another as it passes along on 
the wings of time ; One Law, one Life ; birth 
and death, one result, Reconstruction. 

Demonstration is the only method. You must 
receive and be able to express before knowledge 
in anything can be established in you. That I 



60 EXPLANATION 

know avails you nothing. YOU must know. 
There is a portion of your brain which records 
these messages and allows you to give ex- 
pression, but it must be brought into action 
by you. Intensified sight and hearing is the 
result of uncovering this portion of your now 
unused brain. No one can bring this into ac- 
tion. 

We can interest you in the things we have 
learned but unless you can grasp our mean- 
ing, our words are lost. Those who are dead 
can attract your attention in the same manner 
and by the same law, but if you do not recog- 
nize their signalling, their efforts are in vain. 

Bear in mind at all times that help in every- 
thing can only be offered ; you are the receiv- 
ing station. Entry must be made on the book 
of your Dife if the record bears witness for 
you. Do not be discouraged — sometimes the 
spring lies deep but if you are diligent, it will 
burst forth in glad song in your life. It is nat- 
ural for every life to seek knowledge, but you 
must be always open for new Truths. Facts 
live and are the last reduction of any Truth. 

Make up your mind that your loved one's 
greatest desire is to let you know of the Life 
beyond the grave. 

Each one is a law unto themselves, there- 
fore, illustrations from their detailed com- 
munications would be the only method that 



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could be used to create interest in those who 
believe death ends all. The finest forces in 
nature would have to be perfectly understood 
before this question of the communication with 
the dead can become a part in the general edu- 
cation of the races ; but individuals who are 
not hampered can receive and give communica- 
tions. You may be blessed with this super- 
knowledge and live the full life through the 
manifestation in your own physical temple. 

Expression is the only means to gain full 
knowledge.. Once you realize this your unfold- 
ment will come in rapid successions of mani- 
festations. 

There comes to each of you moments, when 
you wonder and almost doubt the Truth of the 
communication with the dead. At these times 
we have found that the very silence speaks of 
their nearness to us. You do not doubt the 
song of the bird even though many years may 
pass. The presence of the loved ones must be 
felt as well as heard if you would not lose 
confidence in the thought of their continued 
life. The message from the dead is only a de- 
monstration of continued Life after the change 
called death has taken place. There is very 
little hope of changing the established idea in 
this generation, but every little seed planted 
brings some thought that will help those who 
are really earnest, thinking men and women — 
WE LIVE BECAUSE OF NATURE'S LAW— 
should be the base from which all should 



62 EXPLANATION 

reason. Man or beast, fowl or worm of the 
dust, all are equal in the great law of nature, 
and if the suffering of humanity is considered, 
man has been a step-child of nature — and a 
butt of all the Gods. 



Communications received from several per- 
sons, known to be dead, so called. These mes- 
sages have been verified with the exception of 
the one dated March 9, 1904. We are printing 
it in our first book, hoping the daughter 
spoken of, may still be in the flesh dimension 
and may yet receive the message from her 
father and mother. 

Author. 



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March 9, 1905 

The storm clouds came, and the day was 
dark and drear ; Not a ray of light we saw as 
we toiled along the way. The years were many 
upon our heads and each day as the years 
went by, seemed harder to live, and yet to die, 
it seemed we did not dare to think of crossing 
the foaming tide that bore us oe'r to the other 
side. 

But one day the Angel of Death with his 
sickle bright, took the loved one by my side, 
over the river, as I supposed, onto the other 
side ; to Heaven, I knew that she would go, for 
an Angel she had stood, through every storm 
and her life was pure and good. 

They folded her hands upon her breast ; a 
song was sung and a psalm was read, and we 
tenderly laid her away to await the judgment 
day. 

Next day I sat by the old fireside, thinking 
of days gone by when Mary had placed her 
hand in mine and promised to be my bride. 
And I thought of the life so pure and g'ood, 
but mine had not been so for I had cursed 
when things went wrong and cared not for 
anything. And as I sat it was not of the judg- 
ment day I thought, but of Mary sweet and 
fair, lost forever to me I said, for I cannot 



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enter there, and Death was a cruel thing to 
me to rob me of all I had, for wealth was 
nothing to me I cried, with Mary from my 
side.. 

And as I sat in the gloom of night, for my 
time was nearly run ; the Angel of Death with 
his sickle bright was hovering very near ; and 
I fell asleep to awake in the morn, with Mary 
by my side, and she said "Dear Charley, I 
have come to cheer your dropping heart ; there 
is no death like we once thought, but all is 
life ;" and as I listened to the voice I thought 
was hushed, and I looked into her eyes, the 
same dear loving look was there ; and then I 
cried, "Mary dear, have you come back to me?" 
"Oh no," she said in that sweet voice, "I did 
not go away ; my body you laid beneath the 
sod, my soul was born again into the new 
life, and I can come and talk to you, just as 
we used to do." 

And so I lived for many a month, with 
Mary by my side ; and life was sweet to look 
upon with the fear of death forever gone ; and 
when I passed through the door leading out 
into the light instead of the dark, I was glad 
that I could understand there was no death, 
but all was life. 

Now Mary and I walk side by side and our 
3 T outh is given back to us ; and we return, oh 
child of earth to you, and tell you to live the 
best you can ; be good and true unto yourself 



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and live the very best you can, for father and 
mother will take your hand and lead you out to 
where you can see the glories for yourslf while 
yet upon this earth you stay ; for you need 
not wait for a judgment day, to see the glories 
of the Heavenly land. 

Father and Mother, 
to their only daughter, 
Margaret E. Hob son. 



January 18, 1907 

Message feom Harold to His Mother 

I come into the home just as often since ap- 
parently leaving you, as I did before I was 
taken sick at all, for I follow the same course 
of life, going into the same places. Once in a 
while I go with Grandpa or Aunt Clara on an 
air trip I call it, but the most of my time is 
spent in study as yet and will be for some 
time. I come home to stay and for my meals, 
partaking of your food by absorption ; you 
take into your stomach the solid food, for your 
body is composed of solids, you absorb only 
the vapor so to speak, as there is always 
a vapor arising from everything. That is 
what is called Spirit. It rises and forms a 
world just like the one you are living in. It 
rises from every form of life leaving the 
grosser part to return to dust or earth to be 
taken up by other forms of life, vegetable or 
animal as the case may be. This process is 
called death and is just like anything that is 
not understood ; it leaves you weeping and 
sorrowing, but when you once comphehend the 
value and meaning, the cause and effect, then 
indeed does it become a rich channel leading 
to the richest ore and you may find this chan- 
nel dark or light according to the amount of 
study you give. 






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The channel can not be missed ; every form 
of life passes through it, but you have your 
way lig'hted if you will trim your lamps, 
fill them and keep them burning, for you know 
not the day or hour when you step into the 
enrtance. 

You can lay the body down but the life has 
form after form by which to gain experience; 
that is you have a flesh body, then you have a 
Spirit body ; you pass through a physical death 
before you claim the Spirit body which is 
lighter than the flesh for it is as vapor. Then 
the spirit death when you claim the soul 
body which is only light. 

You hear of the perifled soul ; that is what 
is meant. Then you are in the realm of wis- 
dom and the perfect understanding and radiate 
light, and thts is what the old prophets have 
said : "There was no need for the sun, for the 
Lord God giveth the light and God is Love and 
Love is light ; and they shall reign forever 
more." They are masters of themselves ; they 
have overcome and all things are added unto 
them.. 

It is one continuous life through different 
channels but the river of Life never ceases to 
flow ; from the tiny brook to the ocean grand ; 
rising in vapor, falling again to earth blessing 
it in forms of dew, rain or snow. So it is with 
all lives, though small in the beginning, flow- 
ing from day to day, gathering' up the frag- 



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ments all along the way, reaching the heights 
rebounding again to earth, sending the light 
in the darkness sparkling bright and clear ; 
driving away the shadows, sending out good 
cheer, laughter where now is weeping, sunshine 
where now is storm. So when your mission is 
ended, then will come the calm and love will 
be your portion in the bright world beyond. 
Press onward, ever onward until you have per- 
fect grown. 

Harold. 



Information Given in a Letter from a Son 
to His Father 

Max's mother won't be comforted, because 
she does not believe it is possible for us to talk 
to her. We are the ones to know that, I know 
I am not dead and who can dispute me or tell 
me that I am? I am beginning- to realize more 
and more the Life that Mrs. Danelson speaks 
of, the Life beyond all environments through 
the perfect understanding of the law ; not 
the perfect Life, but the perfect understand- 
ing of Life ; makes life spin along without 
a hitch. You do not need to die to know this 
but the physical dimension sometimes is like 
old machinery, it won't move ahead ; rusted in 
bolts have to be taken out and the rust cleaned 
off. Death is the mechanic sometimes that does 
this work. 

I don't see but I am natural, seem to have 
full use of myself ; I feel the emotions, grief 
and joy. I can't tell you how I use this pencil ; 
I seem to be doing yet I know it is in Mrs. Da- 
nelson's hand. You just add a world when you 
die. It takes a long time to learn this, but those 
who want to learn, do. The people about me 
are the same, some full of pride, others not ; 
some weeping and will not be comforted ; they 
seem to have brought all their baggage along 
with them and hug it tight. Max and I help 
4 each other ; when he finds something new we 
share it together. I am more bulky than he 



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and do not get around as he does ; they tell 
me it is because I was depleted before death 
while he came quickly. He is well and strong 
and I have not regained as yet ; he always did 
fly around while I was more content to figure. 
We have a body, Dad, just like the one you 
buried, feels the same, is used the same. The 
process of life must be the same and Life re- 
clothes itself somehow. We do not lose our 
memories, we think, we are nourished ; it is 
substance to us the same as physical matter is 
substance to the physical mind. Life is a 
wonderful thing to one who thinks concerning 
it at all. It makes us all sorry to hear those 
who have the ear of the public giving the world 
such drivel and denying us life. We are the 
fellows who know ; why don't the great preach- 
ers and doctors realize that. At the best what 
have any of them given to the world that 
really solved the problem of Life? Stick to the 
trail Dad, you will win yet. We were all with 
you last night. It is seldom you shut out all 
the things of life and listen just for us. The 
country will settle down again and all will 
have good times. 
Good-bye all. 

Roy and Max. 



January 7, 1920 

Dear Mother : — 

You know that I am so glad you think of me 
as being alive? I have had real good times here 
with the folks, they have used a table and with 
it I can answer questions "yes" and "no>" 
one rap for "no" and 3 raps for "yes" and 
. when we do not know, we do not move it at 
all. Now mother, you and I could talk to each 
other that way, just as well as I can talk here. 
You get the little table out and sit down to it 
put your hands on it and I will put my hands 
on it with you and answer any question you 
ask me that can be answered "yes" or "no." 
It is a very easy way to make people who be- 
lieve you are dead, hear you. I enjoy it. Of 
course, I can talk to Effa and Ed but you do 
not seem to get my meaning. Just hang on as 
long as you can mother, it is the ones who live 
the full life that are through with the sorrows 
of earth. Otherwise we have to find ways and 
means of finishing out, and it is not always 
easy either to find some one who will share 
with you. Effa is very good that way, she gives 
everybody a chance. You just make yourself 
comfortable and do not bother about any thing. 
Visit with those who you find pleasure with, 
they will all know better when they come to 
die as I did. It is hoped, some day people will 



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think more about Life and how to make good 
every day and not dream about some future 
time bye-and-bye. This is the only Truth that 
amounts to anything. 

To get knowledge and to find out that death 
does not end all, will give you a sure footing. 
I wish there would be more who would help 
Effa in what she is trying to do. She works 
so hard for the best good of all. Her Star is 
bright She has helped all of us. Now don't 
think she is writing this, for it is your son 
Charley. I am using her hands, but I am us- 
ing my own mind. You have so much mystery 
that you can not think out a natural way of 
how we reach you. It is too bad and we try 
so hard to reach all the folks we know, but 
they are afraid it is wicked. Well, it is wicked 
not to hear us and let us tell you we are not 
dead, just as wicked as it is not to harvest the 
grain when it is ripe. 

Don't think about when you are coming to 
us, but think about what you must do yet, so 
as to bring more strength into your body that 
you can live as long as you can. 

All the children are alright, you look after 
yourself and the ones who need help. I am 
pleased with everything else. All the boys are 
fine and are helping 3*011. You have a fine lot 
of boys here. Father is alright . Tell Tillie to 
let things go. She will understand, don't ask 
her what things. 



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I am waiting and watching over you, mother, 
and when the time for you to die comes, I will 
be the one to take you in my arms and give 
you knowledge of the new life. There is no 
heaven or hell. No priest or preacher to take 
your ticket, all have a first class passage and 
land in pretty much the same place and pretty 
much the same condition. The first word any 
of them say is, "where am I?" and the next 
thing is "let me tell my folks," and then the 
trouble begins. You folks are all deaf, dumb 
and blind, can neither see, hear or speak. So 
mother, if you only know a little bit about it 
just the little bit you know, will be a lot of help 
to you. I wish I had known or even thought 
of it, but I have gotten along fine with Ed and 
Effa helping me. We are like one big family, 
when we all get here, her folks and his, then 
Mr. and Mrs. Gould's folks we can get some 
things off our minds, I can tell you. 

Try the table mother, don't ask any one to 
help you, 'we won't need any help. I can work 
her alone with you. I am glad I found out the 
thing would move for me, it is just easy, we 
just lay our hands on yours and move her. I 
think more about you mother, than you think 
I do, but it hurts to feel all the folks think I 
am dead or waiting in line to be saved. That is 
the biggest graft game there is and always 
has been, only people was afraid to think so. 
Now they sit up and take notice, I see. You 
are right mother, don't let anybody worry you. 



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I'll come for you when you are ready and it 
will be a fine time we will have. I am with you 
even if you do not always hear me answer you. 
Good bye Mother, I'll get Effa to let me use 
her hands again some day. Ed will send this 
to you. Thank her for her goodness to me. 

Charley. 



Thoughts for 
Consideration 



PART THREE 



Thoughts for 
Consideration 



Keep your vision, for as you advance you 
throw off worn garments. There are times 
when you feel you are losing ground ; at these 
times if you analyze and compare one experi- 
ence with another, you will discover you have 
advanced. You will then look forward to these 
changes. When people whom you are in as- 
sociation with, regardless of relation, get in 
the way of your advancement and retard your 
progress, go beyond their interference and 
build again. These little rings of smoke you 
see curling about you are the heralders of glad 
tidings, and like shadows, make us look to the 
root of every little act on our part. Acorns 
had fallen many cycles of time while men 
fought for the possession of the wood before 
they looked up and saw the stars and knew 
they were not Gods to worship. Acorns are 
still falling and men are still fighting for the 
possession of the woods, while the stream of 
humanity moves on in their search for the solu- 
tion of why the star does not fall. You are 
the one star in your orbit and knowledge is 
the light which holds you from falling 

Study Life. Keep always uppermost in your 
mind this thought ; every little thing has its 
influence, and to protect yourself daily from 
being led astrny, make comparsions, using 



80 THOUGHTS FOR CONSIDERATION 

the things you know to be- true for the basic 
principle of your test. Hold your own judge- 
ment supreme until the new tests are complete 
Do not be in a hurry to decide questions of im- 
portance ; when the thing requires decision vis- 
ulizing it from all points of view and the 
Life wihin you will erect the perfect image so 
that you need not fear making a mistake. 
The little things in Life that vex are often the 
work of Masters breaking up the ice flows that 
you may navigate the stream in safety. To 
make use of every little thing then, cannot be 
urged too strongly upon you. Life is the power 
of thought and action combined which builds 
and holds itself erect withstanding and de 
fying ages of eruption, gathering from each 
a new, strong power. Study Life in its joys 
and sorrows and Life in its power and strength. 

Gather together for the daily weaving the 
silver and gold threads of Life. The gold 
is for the knowledge and the silver is the 
precious urn in which Life dwells. Life, in 
the flesh temple is subject to heat, cold, feast 
and famine. Life, in the temple of the 

Spirit is subject to the same elments in the 
Spirit body. Life in the temple of the Soul 
is subject to the same elements in the Soul 
body. Each dimension has for its center the 
earth and its matter ; the distance from the 
earth is not germain to our subject ; it is like 
air and light; the flesh body being more dense 
requires greater power for action. 



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The law of life is such a wonderful thing ; 
and to think that the progress of man has 
been so retarded by the false ideas of a God 
who wanted the sacrifice of humanity, the pour- 
ing out of the blood and the burning of the 
flesh to satisfy his lust. The scientist who 
willfully misleads the people of today in this, 
the great question of Life beyond the grave, 
is far worse than Moses or Jesus, who sought 
to set themselves up in power of grace to this 
Mighty One, whom they named God. We point 
to the great law governing the universe, the 
supply tower of light, the wonderful power 
of gestation which brings out of chaos the sym- 
etrical life of man, the birds and beasts and all 
living creatures, the worm of the dust or the 
gay butterfly .flitting from flower to flower ; 
the bee and the ant, the life in the depths 
of the waters of the land, the ,great law which 
speaks only in creation, giving to all creatures 
great or small, animate or inanimate, not 
taking, not demanding but each in its own 
temple, supreme. 

How wonderful to think of life in its vast- 
ness ; unlimitable progression ; out of yesterday 
it came but in today, I am. Whither I do go, , 
lies folded in the pedals of Life. Like a 
flower we await our fulfillment from root to 
leaf, from leaf to stem, from stem to bud, from 
bud to flower, our mission yet unfinished, our 
life has just begun. Whither are we bound? 
Let us learn of life today; living today means 



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just this ; activity along the lines which brings 
us forth today ; all future time is in the offing. 

The Life fluid permeates all of everything in 
nature feeding all streams of energy ; each 
life or plant form, a gulf, so to speak, hold- 
ing the batteries of Life. The power in Life 
is as the sun holding the atoms together in the 
ocean of Life caught up out of the Universe, 
changed into bud, flower and bee, fish and 
fowl of the air, man and beast. 

The law of change in reconstruction is ever 
present in each life individually and collect- 
ively. To study Life, think of nature in its 
various manifestations and you have within 
your grasp the solution of man. 

Man calls himself superior but is he superior? 

We need advanced thinkers but we need more 
of those who can live and bring success from 
the association with self. We find the vast- 
ness of Life in the endless, boundless, unde- 
finable Universe. All Life is free, because all 
Life is nature ; man only is bound, because man 
binds. 

What is Life, that winding, endless part- 
ing of the ways. Grasp what you can as the 
fleeting moments pass, one by one ; they are the 
reflection in the mirror held by Life ; Linked 
together they are the mighty cable bearing the 
message to Life. You wait, you watch ; yet in 



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the turbulent stream of Life you are passing 
What is Life ; it is the yearning soul of a 
little child, the pulsing heart beat of a mother, 
the iron will of the father ; it is the great love 
of all these calling into the depths of Hell or 
peering through the gates of Heaven (Life) 
Life is at the corner, pointing the way on, 
ever on ; on the highway in mad chase ; on the 
greensward, full of glee ; at the tomb torn with 
grief ; blown by the wind, fanned by the 
zephyr or thrown up by the volcano, all this 
is Life. To hold it, to have it, none have the 
right ; yet all in all, from morn until night you 
are Life in all it's moods and fancies, its 
turmoil of change out of which you come 
clothed and fed. You are Life complete, hold- 
ing the Universe in change. One Law, One 
Life. 

The light which is commonly called spirit 
light is the spirit body illumined by Life. 
The flesh body is illumined by Life in the same 
manner ; it might be called intelligence ; it 
might be called love but we call it light. Those 
who can see this light understand it to be a 
power of the physical sense ; some say spirit- 
ual but we claim that every life is a globe of 
light and our value is discerned according to 
the points of light we are. Some throw a 
circle while others form a square or triangle. 
We teach you that Life is a whole and these 
are only dimensions. The tree is in the acorn 
but to become visible it must overcome the 



84 THOUGHTS FOR CONSIDERATION 

acorn ; you must overcome all limitations and 
seek expression. 

Blindness is a stumbling block ; deafness, a 
stone wall ; human weakness, slavery ; slav- 
ery is bondage ; to be bound is to be in ignor- 
ance through fear. The man or woman who 
has not full sight and hearing is as much a 
cripple as the one who is physically blind, or 
deaf, armless or legless. 

Death is not necessary in the gaining of the 
knowledge of Life. We do not pull the stars 
down to study them ; we add sight. So. it is 
in this study of Life ; we must express through 
everything and gain power of Life. To study 
every little thing gains for you the greater 
sight. 

The very fact of your being here, you must 
have come from somewhere. Man, being a 
progressive and a natural traveler should 
know his goal and the route over which he 
is traveling. 

Protect yourself from the robber of your life ; 
get knowledge by reasoning for yourselves the 
facts in the case. Be fairminded and honest 
with yourselves; be unafraid (nothing to fear). 
Your loved ones have found life, why do you 
grope in the dark shadows of mystery, hinder- 
ing both your own progress and theirs? You 
will reap for yourselves all that you sow ; you 
have been chosen from the garden of life, hold 
power over the faults or weaknesses as they 



THOUGHTS FOR CONSIDERATION 85 

appear ; they are only enemies trying , to de- 
ceive and destroy you. Watch the thought as 
it is the outer leaves protecting the petals of 
your life ; if they are storm scarred it is 
nothing for have they not stood guard while 
you slept? Now that you have awakened 
you are the guard. Guard well the life which 
the thought has brought forth. The light 
which blazes from your high tower will then 
light the dark places in the lives of those 
whom you wish to serve. In studying Life we 
find we must go beyond old records. We 
must contact with minds who can bring us 
record of other worlds so to speak. The 
physical mind cannot grasp these things. We 
do not expect it, but there is in each human 
life an all seeing eye. This eye may be called 
understanding. There those who see the dead 
and call it a gift. There are those who see and 
do not know they see, and call it dreams. But 
those who study Life call it understanding. 

Seeing your loved ones is natural to every 
one, and to make it a mystery is a crime 
against humanity. To gain this understanding 
one must be diligent-alert-always ready to 
throw off old theories for new facts. Make 
comparisons, and be ready to meet an adver- 
sary on his ground. That the dead live is a 
fact in nature, therefore must be the results 
of nature's law. You accept life in the flesh 
dimension and never argue or scoff. Be honest 
in this question. Be willing your dead should 



86 THOUGHTS FOR CONSIDERATION 

live and reason that if they have found life, 
they must be very anxious to tell you about 
it. Think of their joy, and then imagine their 
sorrow when they are called devils and you 
will not receive their message. 

Call to your loved ones ; they can help you 
for they have found life, not death. It is not 
only their pleasure but their progression as 
well. Whenever they can help you they help 
themselves also ; help yourselves and them, 
then, by thinking of them as in life, not death. 
Realize that if they have found life it must 
be a natural one and must be in some way con- 
nected with the one they had. If this be true 
their happiness must depend somewhat on their 
being able to make themselves known. If you, 
who have remained in the old home refuse them 
when they return to tell you the tidings of the 
life they found, think how they must feel ; 
think of their disappointment and think wha^t 
you have lost in not realizing their presence so 
near you. Think what an advantage is your's 
to live in two world's, so to speak, having a 
light going before you, revealing the pitfalls 
in your path. Think of the free use of your 
life to live each day right because it is right, 
knowing that if you do wrong you lose your 
way until you realize you have made a mis- 
take in life the same as in business. 

Live each day to the best good of all and you 
will have no regrets. Call to your loved ones ; 
they will answer you and help you to find your 



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way and the light they shed upon your life 
must reflect on others whom your life contacts 
with. Help shed the light by getting knowledge. 
Knowledge is power. Analyze life. Have no 
fear. 

Ever since man first saw the light of day 
questions have been asked, if we can be- 
lieve the story of Adam and Eve in the Gar- 
den of Eden. Their nakednes bothered them, for 
the first thing they did after the light of know- 
ledge entered the portal of their brain was to 
fashion draperies to cover their nakedness. 

Today, men and women are seeking ways 
and means to fill the gap between the then, and 
now ; question of life in the future. Books 
have been written by wise men and foolish but 
even in the sayings of the fool we find a morsel 
of the bread of Life. The chambers in the 
house of clay are many and each chamber 
has its teacher, unseen or heard by man. The 
babe, the youth, maturity and old age when 
the circuit is made and the physical body suc- 
cumbs to its jailer (death) and life stalks into 
the unknown again. How are you to know, 
you who are still in the prison of your physical 
enviroments? How can you deny the life that 
may exist beyond that shadowy veil? You 
have never pierced the veil ; you have never sat 
at the feast table with those dead, in their 
new home ; you have never heard their heart 
broken cry, "Hear me, my beloved one, I am 
alone in death ; speak to me ; answer my cries 



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of anguish ; lift up your eyes and behold me ; I 
am here." What right have you who have 
never answered the cry of the dead to say 
there is no life beyond the grave. 

Would you know how fares it with your 
loved ones whom you speak of as dead? Those 
who were quick of perception in the temple of 
flesh are also quick of perception in the temple 
of the Spirit. The life is the same whether in 
one body or another. Those who are fond of 
study seek the halls of learning ; those who are 
fond of sport spend their time in games ; those 
whose lives were spent in riotous living seek 
their haunts also. The lover of homes builds 
homes for themselves and for those less fortun- 
nate, but all are dwellers more or less on the 
earth's surface seeking consolation. The in- 
tensified sight and hearing, which is only reali- 
zation at its best through different channels of 
expression, is possessed by all, rich or poor, 
good or bad, educated or un-educated. There 
are different degrees of expression ; some learn 
readily and progress rapidly ; others are very 
slow and some are so attached to earth that 
they are not aroused to any greater mode of 
living. These, we find always in search of some 
person through whom they may still enjoy fiesh 
passions and pleasures. Others love to linger 
in and around the old haunts to stimulate 
those whom -they mourn, who, in their com- 
mon grief cannot advance. Many have found 
a release in the change called death and are 



THOUGHTS FOR CONSIDERATION 89 

striving to educate those who mourn for them ; 
these are educators and liberators, constantly 
at work. Life casts off many bodies through 
the slow process called death as it advances. 

Be not satisfied but explore, explore. You 
know you have a physical body but get acquaint- 
ed with Life, the guardian of that physical 
body to the end that you may find greater fields 
to explore. Let your eyes possess the greater 
sight that you may behold and understand all 
things. Listen with a keen vision and you will 
both see and hear, thereby judging right. Go 
forth to conquer and abolish ignorance from 
your life. Think for yourself. 

Life after death can only mean one thing to 
the student ; it is this, new possibilities ; great- 
er opportunities for expansion. Life before 
death has given us much but is is only the A. 
B. C. of life. It cannot even be called that ; it 
is hardly the infancy of the great life of man. 
What we have gained can hardly be called a be- 
ginning ; it is only a try out. Chemistry, 
steam and electricity ; what have they given 
us when we have before us the possibilities of 
a continued life beyond that fated line history 
has called the end. Life after death can only 
mean the discovery of another seeming bound- 
ary line from a physical view point. Know- 
ledge of Life after death gives us continued 
association with our loved ones and brings us 
in touch with all that has gone before. It 



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opens the door of the past, holds us to the line 
in the present and opens the door of the future 
all in one breath it might be said. When it 
means to the world must be gauged by what 
it means to the individual. To study the ques- 
tion of Life after Death the student must get 
beyond the narrow confines of the conception 
of Life which has been handed down to this 
generation. We must work along new lines if 
we' mill make new discoveries. We must leave 
the old shore behind. Enter into the silence 
of deep thought and listen to the voices of 
those who have found life through Death. 

Death is the chemist which reduces the flesh 
body and brings out the spirit body. The 
trouble with the seekers of this truth is their 
lack of analysis. They test but do not analyze. 
They are held by the opinion of those who 
made discoveries and wrote laws. The road led 
just that far for them and they set up an alter 
and worshipped there, demanding through their 
establisRed law that no traveler attempt fur- 
ther explorations. Their alters crumbled and 
a new generation surged on ; so time after time 
Humanity has thrown down obstructions to 
visions and taken new steps but always be- 
coming stumbling blocks by posting up a sign 
"There is nothing beyond this line of, worship 
here ; take one step farther and absolute anni- 
hilation is yours." There has always been 
brave souls who dared to take a risk and go 
beyond the last guard to find life rich in all 



THOUGHTS FOR CONSIDERATION 91 

things. Their cries of triumph float back and 
the braver ones venture to follow and thus 
civilization moves up. Today, the vanguards 
of Educational Spiritualism have found great 
fields and are sending out to you their cry of 
triumph. Let the world resound with your an- 
swer that we may know you are coming to 
help us. 

Natural life after Death is the country dis- 
covered this time and the religious ghouls are 
plentiful ; their bondage is far worse than the 
bondage of the old time inquisition. Let us 
have knowledge let us open our minds to un- 
derstanding ; let us rest not, day or night, un- 
til our flag waves supreme in every life and 
every one can say "I know, for I have heard 
the voice and seen the forms of my loving dead." 
Sight and hearing are not gifts, they are laws ; 
rub the mist of mystery out of your eyes, get 
the dull sound of faith out of your ears and rise 
supreme in power through knowledge of the 
natural law of life. 

Wlhen you die you simply lay aside one body 
for another. The power called Life moves for- 
ward but not always unhampered. To die 
means nothing but a change of bodies. The 
Life, whether in one body or another is the 
same. The power to function might be called 
the sap as in the trees and when it is with- 
drawn by Life the body no longer stretches 
forth its branches clothed in gorgeous leaves 



92 THOUGHTS FOR CONSIDERATION 

and those who do not know the nature of the 
tree say it is dead ; but Life sending forth 
the sap through the apparently dead branches, 
reclothes them. So it is with the human body ; 
we are not dead, only those who do not know 
nature's law look upon the lifeless forms of 
loved ones and say they are dead. A person 
may live to be a hundred years old and not . 
know anything about Life outside the fact that 
they can eat, drink and asleep. The fact that he 
has lived a hundred years dos not make him au- 
thority but when one having died speaks, it is 
taken for granted he knows all, and if he has 
been dead a hundreds years he is a wonder. He 
may be dead a thousand years and like the 
man who lived a hundred, only knows he lives. 

Do the advanced spirit? tell us of a salva- 
tion through any single door? Can we be sat- 
isfied with the salvation or testimony of those 
who have died in fear if they only repeat the 
things they believed while in the temple of 
flesh? Must we not divest ourselves of these, 
and seek audience with those whom we might 
say never lived among us, who were as trees 
walking. Let us learn the language of the 
rocks ; let us sing with the brooks ; let us speak 
with the breath of the wind. The stars speak 
their language, the sun and the moon have 
their mission, the earth called us. Let us not 
be satisfied. Discontent brings discernment 
as did Columbus' unrest give to the East the 
West. Why should we sit idly down and not try 



THOUGHTS FOR CONSIDERATION 93 

to solTe the problem, this greatest of all pro- 
blems, the question of life after death. Were 
we satisfied with the camel and the ox cart? 
Were we satisfied with the flint? Were we 
satisfied with the tallow dip? Were we sat- 
isfied with the kerosene lamp and the horses? 
Are we satisfied with the gas light and the 
engine? Are we satisfid with electric light and 
autombiles ? No ! Then shall we be satisfied 
with the tablets of stone and a basket of 
husks left by our fore-fathers? NO, a mil- 
ion times, no ! Let us have knowledge and the 
greater life ; they had the camel and the don- 
key ; we must have the flying machine. 

Keep always before you that the communica- 
tion comes because it is natural. Keep your 
minds free from mystery, always reasoning that 
the same law must govern speech, sight and 
hearing in the inner eye or voice. Physical 
manifestations through the body of the flesh 
world are produced by the law of combustion. 
You walk, talk and think ; these are produc- 
tions as the result of the law of change. 

When you can get away from worry over 
the things you do not understand and practice 
the art of observation in each little manifesta- 
tion, your eyes will behold the things of the 
inner or intensified sight. The revolutions of 
a wheel registers the speed. The magnitue of 
a thought gives its per cent. Watch then, and 
make comparisons in the things you do under- 



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stand to gain the understanding of the things 
that mystify. 

We get our information from the Master 
minds but these do not claim to be Infinite. All 
Spiritualists agree there are communications ; 
that those who have been thought of as being 
dead are living. They all agree there is no 
Heaven or Hell ; these two facts should bring 
to their minds this deduction. If the dead live, 
there is no need of Heaven or Hell, and if no 
Heaven or Hell then there is no need of a God 
whose supreme effort was the establishment of 
these three things in the minds of men. GOD, 
HEAVEN and HELD. 

The GREAT LAW of the Universe can be 
called CHANGE, but to associate the law of 
the UNIVERSE with a God who owns a 
Heaven and a Hell and whose desire is to as- 
sign us poor mortals to eternal bondage, for- 
bidding us to gain knowledge of Life seems to 
us an injustice to the sense of any living per- 
son. The struggle is a hard one but the fight 
must go on until humanity is freed from the 
yoke of this task-master who throws us into 
bloody warfare and bondage. 

We only want to bring the facts to the no- 
tice of the people ; it is not our purpose to 
argue. 

Sight is folded within you as the flower lies 
in the bud or as the Oak tree is sleeping in the 



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acorn and you might say, even as the acorn 
lies in the rojot of the Oak. There is no limita- 
tion to Life ; we can be hampered but we do 
not need to be bound. 

To the stout hearted we give praise ; to the 
faint hearted we give courage ; to the weak one 
we give strength, and to all we give the labor 
of Love from our grateful heart, for not one 
has failed us in our hour of need. They have 
strengthened our hands and when weariness 
overtook us they spurred us on ; when sore per- 
plexed their cares turned us from our own. 
One by one, though they knew it not, they have 
been our stepping stones on our way to the goal 
we choose. 

Glory and praise to all we give who in our 
struggle have given us undaunted courage and 
treasures untold. 

Our wish for you in all the years to follow 
can not be said in words of idle wishing, words 
of praise for service past or service yet to 
come. Our wish, if wish it may be called, is 
just that you, dear readers, may never let a 
moment pass. Grasp each one in your strong 
embrace and let the radiance shine far out. 
The petals from the rose must part to let the 
perfume glide, and then the petals fall. The 
mission of the rose is to gladden the heart of 
all who look upon it. The moment of your life 
is to fill your day with the lasting nectar of 



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Life ; the mission of your Life is to hold the 
moments of the golden hours of your day as the 
rose holds its petals. 

Our wish is our blessing that whatever you 
may ask for wisdom's sake, you may receive 
a hundred fold better than you wish. 



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